On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:21:53PM +0100, Arclele wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to make a test with NetBSD 1.5.2 but I can't
> get to the and the installation procedure.
> 
> ## PROBLE: NetBSD 1.2.5 installation failed.
> 
> ## WHERE: on a Veridata XtraPro 486s/25 width 8 M
>    of ram 350 M of HD, three partitions (DRdos 105 Mb) 
>    swap for linux (now  of 9 Mb) the other for linux 
>    laptop. The NetBSD Os would be installed instead of 
>    linux (slackware 3.5)
> 
> ## in advance I didn't make a partition of the HD for
>    NetBSD, in order to use the linux partitions. I rightly
>    got all over the partitons to unused, and then setted them
>    to NetBSD, with their parameters. 
>    
> ## the boot goes on without problems (floppy 1 and 2), the part
>    of the installation actived by the sysinst arrives to the end
>    with some allerts (see down), but then when the installation
>    would really start it gives an error:
> 
>    status: failed
>    command: /sbin/newsfs  /dev/rwd0a
>    pres any key to continue
>    -----
>    newsfs /dev/rwd0: open: device not configured
> 
> 
> ## the installation would come from the NetBSD on
>    the DRdos partition.
> 
> ## during the installation I noticed that:
> a) the physical geometry of the HD and of
>    bios are lightly different (see down)
> 
> b) it says to me that there is an overlapping in the
>    partitions but i can't see it on the screen
> 
> c) it creates an empty partition n 3 unused
> 
> d) it says to me that BSD partition is located beyond
>    the 1024 cilinder (but because of the HD is smaller
>    than 520 MB, and there is the boot manager, i think
>    in doesn't matter, am i wrong?)
> 
> e) when I reeboot my pc, the boot manager appears correctly 
>    installed, but clearly the f2 option for the BSD stops
>    the machine
>    
> 
> This is my fdisk output:
> 
> ----
> wd0: no disk label
> NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
> cylinders: 682 headers: 16  sectors/track: 63 (1008
> sectors/cylinder)
> BIOS disk geometry:
> cylinders: 681 headers: 16  sectors/track: 63 (1008
> sectors/cylinder)
> Partition table:
> 0: sysid 6 (Primary 'big' DOS 16-bit FAT (> 32MB))
>     start 63, size 215649 (105 MB), flag 0x80
>         beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector   1
>         end: cylinder  213, head  15, sector  63
> 1: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
>     start 217728, size 19152 (9 MB), flag 0x0
>         beg: cylinder  216, head   0, sector   1
>         end: cylinder  234, head  15, sector  63
> 2: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
>     start 237888, size 448560 (219 MB), flag 0x0
>         beg: cylinder  236, head   0, sector   1
>         end: cylinder  680, head  15, sector  63
> 3: <UNUSED>

Why is there 2 NetBSD partitions ? I think this is the problem.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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